Uppsatsen fokuseras kring högskoleutbildade kvinnor som befinner sig i en specifik arbetsmarknadspolitisk åtgärd. Åtgärden har en inriktning mot lärande och kompetens, kombinerat med arbetspraktik. Uppsatsen bygger på kvalitativa intervjuer med fem av de kvinnliga deltagarna i åtgärden. Dessa kvinnors upplevelser av sitt lärande och de erfarenheter de gör är en av grundstenarna i arbetet. Resultat

The aim of this essay was to look into and compare the experiences and opinions about the practice of 13 § LVM among persons that, through their profession, use the law. The questions we have been asking were; what experiences and opinions the individuals have about the paragraph in general, what they think about the cases when no application for LVM is made after a client has been taken in charg

The purpose of this essay was to examine class-travellers experiences of having done the class-travel and when they realised they had done it. My questions were: when did they start the class-travel? How do they experience themselves after going through the classtravel? How do they change as class-travellers in their relationship with their surroundings? The study was based on interviews with si

The aim of this Master's thesis is to discuss and analyse co-operation between public and academic libraries. The political changes that were initiated during 2004 have come to alter the conditions for Swedish libraries. The Swedish library law was changed at the 1st of January 2005 and co-operation between libraries is now statuary even if there is no description of how the new mission is to

The aim of my essay is to look at the organization of democracy at an international level, here within the European Union. By looking at the democratic organisation of the European Constitutional draft and the relation between procedural and substantive directives of democracy therein I am able to see what political behaviour the Constitution expresses in turns of creating a "government for t

Sammanfattning Museer har till uppgift att dokumentera, forska och samla in människans och naturens lämningar för att berika kulturarvet och bidra med ny kunskap. Frågan är vad det är för kunskap som förmedlas och vad det är som väljs att ta med i kulturarvet. Denna uppsats syftar till att lyfta fram diskussionen kring huruvida kulturarvet och kunskapsförmedlingen är könsneutral och hur den dolda

Immigrants and children of immigrants are statistically lumped together into a category of "person with foreign background". Blatte is a degrading and violating word when directed at immigrants by Swedes. The aim of my essay was to test to what extent the Swedish term "blatte" could be qualified as an ethnicity in the sense that young people with foreign background born between

Empowerment har blivit ett allt vanligare begrepp för att beskriva olika typer av försök att ge anställda i organisationer ökat inflytande, ökat ansvar och/eller mer självbestämmande. En vital förutsättning för ett lyckat utfall av en empowermentsatsning är upplevelserna hos de anställda. Detta är en forskningsöversikt med syfte att analysera hur empowerment upplevs av "the empowered" s

Since 1999 Sweden have a law that criminalises the person who buys sexual services instead of criminalising the one who is selling, which in most cases is a woman. Seven years has passed since this law took place and in this study we aim to investigate what kind of help the society offer women in Malmö, Sweden, who wishes to step out of prostitution. Our aim with this study is also to look at the

Den 11 september 1973 avsattes den chilenska presidenten Salvador Allende under en militärkupp. Senare har det kommit till känna att den amerikanska regeringen under lång tid varit inblandade i motarbetandet av Allende. Den amerikanska underättelsetjänsten CIA var den organisation som genomförde de olika hemliga operationerna som utgjorde en stor del av den amerikanska utrikespolitiken mot Chile.

In this essay, I have studied the image of the drug abusing mother and her motherhood as seen in some of the social science literature on drug abusing women. This I did with a qualitative research design and with the questions: How is the drug abusing mother and her motherhood portrayed by social scientists? What signification is her motherhood given in her life by the researchers? What approac

The aim of this study is to examine if the leadership style in Faiveley Transport Nordic Ltd has an impact on the psychosocial climate in the workplace. Henceforth, we have checked if the psychosocial climate influences the feeling of satisfaction that exists in the organization and if this in turn influences the degree of extra effort the employee chooses to impose on his or her task. In order to

The purpose of this study was to examine why adventure treatment is mainly directed towards young men and how that can be related to the construction of masculinity. Our questions were: - What were the social workers thoughts and images about masculinity? - Why did they think adventure treatment were suitable for young men and for what reasons? - How did the social workers describe their role

The purpose of this study was to examine the problematic and frustrating aspects of parenthood in the modern runaway world of today. In other words, we wanted to study how parents in Sweden experienced their life as parents in the beginning of the 21th century. We wanted to find answers to the following questions: What kind of problems do parents experience and how do they deal with these proble

Personalkontoret på Lunds tekniska högskola intresserade sig för universitetsadministratörernas speciella situation på sina respektive institutioner. För att undersöka detta fick jag i uppdrag att skriva en uppsats, där syftet blev att beskriva och analysera institutionsadministratörernas uppfattning om sin kompetens och sitt lärande inom LTH. För att finna svar på detta, utförde jag intervjuer me

The purpose of this essay was to examine whether there were any differences in social workers way of investigating boys and girls, age 13-15. The main questions we wanted to answer were; which were the factors that the social workers focused on? Did the investigations lead to a measure and if so, which one? How were risk and protection factors described and ana-lysed? To answer our questions we r

The aim of this study is to analyze the construction of "Christian masculinity" during the modern era. This is made in opposition to earlier research that has claimed that masculinity could not be constructed religiously, that is, without at the same time being constructed as effeminate or anti-masculine. Using a wide variety of theoretical concepts - such as discourse analysis, class,

The purpose with our essay was to examine what favourable factors there are for women to get out of drug abuse and from a gender aspect interpret how these factors are used in the treatment of female drug-addicts, regarded from the treatment personnel view. The questions we have focused on are: What are the favourable factors for women in the way out of the addiction. How can the use of favourable

Public procurement is used as a policy tool in governments throughout the world. In later years environmental policy objectives have been raised as a possible goal of public procurement. This has, however, come to prove problematic for many governments and this paper attempts to find out if there is an implementation gap between environmental consideration in the procurement process at policy leve